Q: Reggie Wayne made a great catch the last time you faced him, in 2007.

Asomugha: I think he’s got some of the best hands in the entire league and I think everybody pretty much knows that on our team. You see him catching slants with his finger tips, stuff like that, he had that one-handed one on me in ’07 so …

Q: Third down, wasn’t it?

Asomugha: Oh, it was a big play, a huge play, one-handed falling out of bounds. I still don’t think he caught it, he says he caught it. I guess he said there was a debate on Youtube whether or not he caught that ball … so he’s got great hands.

In 2007 game when Colts came to Oakland, they were better than they are now, and the Raiders weren’t as good as they are now, and the game was close …

Asomugha: Yeah. And offensively we weren’t putting up any points compared to what we’re doing now, and defensively we were able to do what we do best and just press the guys and kind of get up and give them no room, and we played them really well until that last drive where they went down and scored. It was a lot closer than a lot of people thought, them being a playoff team and us we probably at that point had like three wins or something. And we’re better now. So we have a lot of confidence going into it.

Manning ever said anything that cracked you up?

Asomugha: On the field? I can’t hear him. I do hear guys when they come back to the sidelines – in ’07, they were shocked that he’s calling out plays. Like ‘This guy’s coming here, 52’s coming here, 53 is going there’ and he will tell exactly what’s getting ready to go on. And the center will do exactly the same thing. Jeff (Saturday) will tell (the rest of the line), and they will all know what’s going on with the front 7. It’s pretty funny, and sometimes it freaks guys out — ‘How in the word do you know this?’ But he’s a guy that sometimes it seems like he’s clairvoyant, like he knows what’s about to happen before every snap. That’s what he prides himself on, so we got a challenge.